Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recession , a crisis in American retailing and the tarnishing of many once-snobby luxury brands are making them think again . |
| 2 | What makes them think and function in the way they do ? |
| 3 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 4 | Let them think him high-handed ; he was damned if he was going to let this greasy television pundit push him about . |
| 5 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 6 | Never let them think she knew they fancied her . |
| 7 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 8 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 9 | So the opposition have not quite as long for their inquests and recuperative action as the bleak dawn of last Friday may have made them think . |
| 10 | But let them think on this . |
| 11 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
| 12 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 13 | As long as you hold yourself well and do n't embarrass people by letting them think , ‘ Oh he 's so thick ’ or ‘ his ways are so silly ’ , you 're all right . |
| 14 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 15 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 16 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 17 | And it would ta , take someone like that just to make them think , yeah , well , you know what is so funny in get rid of this sort of stigma about boys being immature . |
| 18 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You made them think . ’ |
| 20 | So er we achieved something there , even if it you know it it put the frighteners up the chap , police looking out the windows and you know , saw our reaction when the police turn up , it makes them think again . |
| 21 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 22 | And it 's always a good idea to let them think you 've got better enchantments in your armoury than you actually have , if you take my meaning , even if you have n't got any enchantments at all . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's nearly as clever to let people think you do n't care as it is to let them think you 're silly . |
| 24 | Making them think there was nothing they could n't do with their own lives , and other people 's . |
| 25 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 26 | If we are to take account of the world in which our students now live — the world of mass media , information technology and global communications systems — and help them think critically about it , we must develop new teaching approaches , drawing together the theories , skills and research techniques of all academic disciplines . |
| 27 | He knew the way to make people do what you wanted was to make them think it was their idea . |
| 28 | They 're becoming even easier to pick up once delicensed nowadays , thanks to the invasion of the upstart Metrocabs , which drive like a Panzer , look like an undertaker 's second-best hearse and give the punters a ride which makes them think they 're in a telephone-box on castors . |
| 29 | The trick is to make them think you 're buying them from Harrods , not Woolworth 's at sale time . ) |
| 30 | Make them think there are two of us out here ? ’ |